Eleonore Stump (born August 9, 1947) is an American philosopher and the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University, where she has taught since 1992.

Eleonore Stump received her first degree, a B.A. in classical languages, from Grinnell College in 1969.^[1] She was class valedictorian and received the Archibald Prize for scholarship. She has an M.A. in biblical studies (New Testament) from Harvard University (1971), and an M.A. and Ph.D. in medieval studies (medieval philosophy) from Cornell University (1975). In 1992 she joined Saint Louis University where she is the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy.^[2] Before coming to Saint Louis University, she taught at Oberlin College, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and the University of Notre Dame. She holds secondary or honorary appointments at Wuhan University, Blackfriars Hall at the University of Oxford, and University of York.

She has published extensively in philosophy of religion, contemporary metaphysics, and medieval philosophy. Her books include Aquinas (2003), Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering (2010), The God of the Bible and the God of the Philosophers (2016), Atonement (2018), The Image of God. The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Mourning (2022), and Grains of Wheat: Suffering and Biblical Narratives (2024). She has given the Gifford Lectures (Aberdeen, 2003), Joseph McCarthy Lecturer (Pontifical Gregorian University, 2004), the Wilde lectures (Oxford, 2006), the Stewart lectures (Princeton, 2009), the Aquinas Lecture (Marquette, 2016), the Stanton lectures (Cambridge, 2018), the Dewey Lecture (the American Philosophical Association, 2023).

Among her honours are the Aquinas medal awarded by the American Catholic Philosophical Association (2013), American Maritain Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2017), the award of Johanna Quandt Young Academy Distinguished Senior Scientist by the Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany (2021), and the Edmund Campion Award by Saint Louis University (2024). She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and she holds honorary doctorates from Marquette University (2006), Tilburg University (2017), Austral University in Buenos Aires (2021), and the Hochschule fuer Philosophie in Munich (2024). She is past president of the Society of Christian Philosophers, Philosophers in Jesuit Education, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and the American Philosophical Association, Central Division.

Among the grants she has held are grants from Danforth Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Association of University Women, the Notre Dame Centre for Philosophy of Religion, the Pew Charitable Trust, the National Humanities Centre, and the Issachar Fund. In addition, she has received several teaching awards, including, in 2004, the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching from Baylor University. In 2013–15, together with John Greco, she held a $3.3 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation for a project on intellectual humility.

Books

• Stump, Eleonore (1978). Boethius's De topicis differentiis. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
• Stump, Eleonore (1988). Boethius's In Ciceronis Topica. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
• Stump, Eleonore (1989). Dialectic and Its Place in the Development of Medieval Logic (collected essays). Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
• Stump, Eleonore (2003). Aquinas. London: Routledge.
• Stump, Eleonore (2010). Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Stump, Eleonore (2016). The God of the Bible and the God of the Philosophers, Aquinas Lecture. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press.
• Stump, Eleonore (2018). Atonement. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Stump, Eleonore (2022). The Image of God: The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Mourning. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Stump, Eleonore (2023). Philosophical Theology and the Knowledge of Persons (collected essays). Eugene: Wipf and Stock.
• Stump, Eleonore (2024). Grains of Wheat: Suffering and Biblical Narratives. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Medieval Philosophy

• Stump, Eleonore (1981). "Roger Swyneshed's Theory of Obligations." Medioevo 7: 135–174.
• Stump, Eleonore (1985). "The Logic of Disputation in Walter Burley's Treatise on Obligations." Synthese 63: 533–374.
• Stump, Eleonore (2006). "Resurrection, Reassembly, and Reconstitution: Aquinas on the Soul." In Die menschliche Seele: Brauchen wir den Dualismus? Edited by Bruno Niederbacher and Edmund Runggaldier, 157–171. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag.
• Stump, Eleonore (2010). "The Problem of Evil." In Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy, vol. 2. Edited by Robert Pasnau, 773–84. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Stump, Eleonore (2011). "The Non-Aristotelian Character of Aquinas's Ethics: Aquinas on the Passions." Faith and Philosophy 28.1
• Stump, Eleonore (2019). "Dante on the Evil of Treachery: Narrative and Philosophy." In Evil: A History. Edited by Andrew Chignell, 252–257. New York: Oxford University Press.

Philosophy of Religion (including work on Eternity)

• Stump, Eleonore and Norman Kretzmann (1981). "Eternity." Journal of Philosophy 78: 429–458.
• Stump, Eleonore (1986). "Dante's Hell, Aquinas's Moral Theory, and the Love of God." The Canadian Journal of Philosophy 16: 181–198.
• Stump, Eleonore and Norman Kretzmann (1991). "Prophecy, Past Truth, and Eternity." Philosophical Perspectives 5: 395–424.
• Stump, Eleonore and Norman Kretzmann (1992). "Eternity, Awareness, and Action." Faith and Philosophy 9: 463–482.
• Stump, Eleonore and Norman Kretzmann (1996). "An Objection to Swinburne's Argument for Dualism." Faith and Philosophy 13: 405–412.
• Stump, Eleonore (1997). "Saadia Gaon on the Problem of Evil." Faith and Philosophy 14. 523–549.
• Stump, Eleonore (2012). "God's Simplicity." In The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas. Edited by Brian Davies and Eleonore Stump. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Stump, Eleonore (2012). "Faith, Wisdom, and the Transmission of Knowledge through Testimony." In Religious Faith and Intellectual Virtue. Edited by Timothy O'Connor and Laura Frances Callahan, 204–230. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Stump, Eleonore (2021). "The True Self and Life After Death in Heaven." In Death, Immortality, and Eternal Life. Edited by T. Ryan Byerly, 65–81. London: Routledge.

Free Will and Metaphysics

• Stump, Eleonore (1988). "Sanctification, Hardening of the Heart, and Frankfurt's Concept of Free Will." Journal of Philosophy 85: 395–420.
• Stump, Eleonore (1996). "Persons: Identification and Freedom." Philosophical Topics 24: 183–214.
• Stump, Eleonore (1996). "Libertarian Freedom and the Principle of Alternative Possibilities." In Faith, Freedom, and Rationality: Philosophy of Religion Today. Edited by Daniel Howard-Snyder and Jeff Jordan, 73–88. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield.
• Stump, Eleonore (1999). "Alternative Possibilities and Moral Responsibility: The Flicker of Freedom." The Journal of Ethics 3: 299–324.
• Stump, Eleonore (2000). "The Direct Argument for Incompatibilism." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61: 459–466.
• Stump, Eleonore and John Martin Fischer (2000). "Transfer Principles and Moral Responsibility." Philosophical Perspectives 14: 47–55.
• Stump, Eleonore (2000). "Moral Responsibility without Alternative Possibilities." In Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities: Essays on the Importance of Alternative Possibilities. Edited by Michael McKenna and David Widerker, 139–158. Aldershot: Ashgate Press.
• Stump, Eleonore (2012). "Emergence, Causal Powers, and Aristotelianism in Metaphysics." In Powers and Capacities in Philosophy: The New Aristotelianism. Edited by Ruth Groff and John Greco, 46–68. New York: Routledge.
• Stump, Eleonore (2018). "The Openness of God: Eternity and Free Will." In Philosophical Essays Against Open Theism. Edited by Benjamin H. Arbour. New York: Routledge.

Other

• Stump, Eleonore (1994). "The Mirror of Evil." In God and the Philosophers. Edited by Thomas Morris, 235–247. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Stump, Eleonore (1999). "Orthodoxy and Heresy." Faith and Philosophy 16: 487–503.
• Stump, Eleonore (2004). "Personal Relations and Moral Residue." History of the Human Sciences: Theorizing from the Holocaust: What is to be Learned? 17.2/3: 33–57.
• Stump, Eleonore (2007). "Beauty as a Road to God." Sacred Music 134.4: 11–24.

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